| 单词 | stock-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstock-boy stock-boy n. (a) Australian an Aboriginal person employed to look after cattle or other stock; (b) U.S. a boy employed by a business firm to look after stock. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker stockman1806 ranchero1825 ranchman1854 bush-hand1863 station hand1863 jackeroo1864 boundary-rider1865 bush-rider1883 ringer1909 bush-worker1936 stock-boy1937 jillaroo1945 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > boy employed to look after stock stock-boy1937 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle > tender of cattle cowman1593 cowboy1623 cow-man1677 cowgirl1753 stockman1806 cowboy1825 cowboy1849 fogger1858 cow-woman1870 cattleman1878 cow-girl1884 tackman1885 cow-hand1886 peeler1894 rawhider1908 stock-boy1937 1937 E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness xli. 305 In Kimberley and the Territory lubras are even to-day recognised as the best ‘stock-boys’. 1955 J. Cleary Justin Bayard iv. 58 The stockboys had roped the piebald now and thrown a saddle on him. 1972 R. Milner in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 376 This receptionist thought I had come about a stock-boy job, you dig. 1979 D. Anthony Long Hard Cure x. 86 He owns a chain of department stores..one of those self-made men, who went to work at fourteen as a stockboy. < as lemmas |
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